Upgrading Gfx without upgrading motherboard, worth it ?

[etienne_marais]

I currently have a GTS 450 (note, GTS not GTX). I could play Diablo III in HD reasonably well (got slow when there was too much activity on screen). I now want to upgrade my Gfx Card with Frontier Dangerous in mind. Problem is I have a MSI 880-E35 Motherboard which has a PCIe x16 v2.0 slot and the card I'm looking at is a GTX 650 - PCIe v3.0 (128bit, 1G, GDDR5) [can't spend more than R2000]. I am really eager to upgrade to play games so I don't want to upgrade my motherboard/other first. Is it worth spending the money on a card which will not perform as well as it potentially can (until I have saved enough to upgrade the rest) ?

 

[sybertiger]

pci 3 will work on pci2slots

so anycard will work, how

http://www.wootware.co.za/msi-n750-...3-0-x16-hdcp-ready-desktop-graphics-card.html

its under 2k



its newer (means it will be faster) and it got 2gb ram

even better
http://www.wootware.co.za/galax-75i...it-pci-express-3-0-desktop-graphics-card.html

and just R200 over your buget and it will out preform that 650 1gb(if its the normal one not the"boost" one by quite a bit

 

[etienne_marais]

pci 3 will work on pci2slots

so anycard will work, how

if u can spend a bit more this is perfect
http://www.wootware.co.za/powercolo...dr5-pci-express-3-0-256bit-graphics-card.html

or

http://www.wootware.co.za/msi-n750-...3-0-x16-hdcp-ready-desktop-graphics-card.html

its under 2k

its newer (means it will be faster) and it got 2gb ram

Thanks !

 

[sybertiger]

edited my post,

and just used nividia that in your buget,the amd is out of your range but if u can the 270x will be good

 

[etienne_marais]

edited my post,

and just used nividia that in your buget,the amd is out of your range but if u can the 270x will be good

Thanks again

 

[ponder]

Thanks again

I'm gonna second sybertiger and tell you to save/spend just that little bit more and go for the PowerColor AXR9 270X, http://www.wootware.co.za/powercolo...dr5-pci-express-3-0-256bit-graphics-card.html

The Galax 750ti is close to your budget but this will be a better buy for a few bucks more. If you can save a wee bit more get a 280X which would be a mini demon.